- Description
- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
![This 6-1/2 minute video from mashable.com has apparently been going viral since last Friday. It takes a static chart that I believe I may have published here before and animates […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Wealth-Inequality-in-America-115x115.jpg "Please Expose Yourself to This Virus: An Animated Look at Wealth Inequality")
![I’m posting this up here mostly because I want to see if anyone around these parts wants to defend it. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is considered one of the up-and-coming […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CIMG4809-nolic-small-115x115.jpg "Your Stupid Political Policy News of the Day: Virginia Punishes Hybrid Owners")
![I don’t know about you, but my initial political understanding of the world was shaped largely by my slavishly reading late-60s and early-70s MAD Magazine. (Personally, I think that I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Office-Dwight-and-Creed-copy-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Anti-Social Skillz")
![We routinely praise Orange County Congressmembers Alan Lowenthal, Linda Sanchez, and Loretta Sanchez on this site (along with some occasional criticism), and we don’t often praise Ed Royce and Darrel […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/violence-against-women-115x115.jpg "Violence Against Women Act Passes! Kudos to Royce*, Issa, Lowenthal, and the Sanchezes. As for the others….")
![Wow. From Tony Bushala, writing on FFFF: Dear Friends, Friends For Fullerton’s Future was born on November 6, 2008, and this will be our farewell post. We will be setting […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bushala-115x115.jpg "FFFFfffftttt!")
![Stop what you’re doing. One of the more important local media stories just came out and you’ll want to be among the first to read it. It’s about this paid […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/murray-eastman-115x115.jpg "The OC Register Wouldn’t Publish This Information Even If You Paid Them – updated with VIDEO")
![Like many people — certainly not all — I have mixed feelings about the final week of Christopher Dorner. (Note: I’m not interested here in discussing conspiracy theories about whether […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dornerburn-115x115.jpg "“Burning Chris Dorner Alive”: A Powerful Argument That is Probably Irrelevant")
![Last night at the Oscars, Seth MacFarlane stirred up a hornet’s nest when he sang a song called “We Saw Your Boobs” that was either written for the occasion or […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Charlize-Theron-115x115.jpg "Twelve Comments on that “We Saw Your Boobs” Song from the Oscars")
![You might enjoy reading this article from the NY Times Magazine that addresses the notion that the junk food companies are, in effect and practice, pretty much equivalent of the tobacco […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/French-Fries-and-Cigarettes-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Crunch Time for Junk Food?")
![Let us be among the first to heap praise onto Erin Shawn for her new website honoring former Fountain Valey Mayor and behind-the-scenes force for good in the world Gus […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gus-Ayer-Awesome-115x115.jpg "GusAyerWasAwesome.com is Awesome and Will Get Awesomer")
![. . . If he weren’t so woefully injurious to the sensibilities of others, I might actually consider it a blessing to have Rep. Dana Rohrabacher around. By “around,” of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dana-bravo-115x115.jpg "Dana Rohrabacher Wins an Argument and Helps Destroy His Party")
![We’re making the national news again, multiple murder department. Here’s some excerpts of the AP report via The Huffington Post about a killing spree from 5:30 to 5:55 a.m. this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ladera-Ranch-wall-115x115.jpg "Early Morning Spree Killing in OC Follows Ladera Ranch Carjacking")
![A conversation on the Weekend Open Thread has gotten me thinking: what if the meteor of a day ago, the Blast Over the Chelyabinsk Oblast, had instead struck here? Bear […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Meteor-over-Chelyabinsk-as-seen-from-Ekaterinberg-115x115.jpg "OJB Contest: What Would Be the WORST Place in OC for Chelyabinsk-Sized Meteor to Hit?")
![Hat tip to Slate for this video. We sometimes have trouble with videos from Vimeo, so if you can’t see it once posted, please click the link, enjoy three minutes […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Moonrise-silhouettes-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Good Moon Rising")
Footage of IRVINE’s rcv agenda item last Tuesday https://irvine.granicus.com/player/clip/7324?view_id=68&redirect=true